This is the city: Los Angeles, California. I work here. I'm an ex-mayor. Los Angeles is a magnet for people from all over the world. Some of them run for public office. Inevitably some of them stray from the golden rule and rule for those that have the gold. That's when I go to work. My name is Yorty. I'm a dead pol.

'Jesusstan?' I love it! Except that I have a profound respect for Jesus despite not being Christian, so I actually wouldn't want to promote the idea that the religious zealots have anything to do with him. I simply don't believe that we should tear him down to the level of his so-called 'followers.'

This "spiritual" crazy bitch thought it was fine and appropriate that a child in kindergarten be bullied by the entire class with teacher's approval for her parents voting Republican -- which she revealed only because teacher asked kids to.

This psycho bitch blasted the parent of the child for NOT teaching her that that was to be expected if she chose to differ from the herd.

THat psycho bitch is the reasons kids kill themselves for being "different" whether the gay kid in Oxnard or the heavy, unpopular one last week. (Higby would be a goner under her rules.) Voting Republican (or presumably, Democratic in the OJ) is for this psych bitch reason to attack the parents in the vilest way like she did in her earlier thread.

Higby, you've lost all credibility with this nasty and stupid psycho- bitch Sarah Michelle Spinoza with her tacky, "spiritual" tattoos on top of your nasty. crass and low class and stupid HaikuLOW. (Will SMS delete this like HaikuSnot does? Boy these bitches sure can't take the criticism they live to sling.)

HaikuLOW, if you were really deleting anything vulgar you'd have deleted yourself in your entirety by now. But instead, you delete Joe Mailander's well-taken objections to your vulgarity and his letting the blogosphere know that YOU are the reason he delinked from this blog. (Guess he hasn't gotten to your mate sarah spinoza yet and now won't.) He didn't make it personal about your anonymouse life, but noted that you're hiding behind a pseudonym.

Then you deleted all comments about that and left only your own lame lies that "They started it!" Yes, Higby's letting you do this, he's lost control and is trying anything to get hits. But you've led him to the death spiral.

Go ahead, put the half penny from this post into your rice bowl, you seem to need it.

'THat psycho bitch is the reasons kids kill themselves for being "different" whether the gay kid in Oxnard or the heavy, unpopular one last week.'

Actually, having been the outcast in my childhood, I'm acutely aware of the way that society treats those that it deems different and/or unacceptable.

What I actually said in the comment to which you are referring is that if parents have unpopular political views, they should prepare their children for the potential fallout.

I didn't blame the child, I blamed the parents for not teaching their child that people can be cruel and that one needs to be prepared. That is what separates a martyr from a victim and it's incumbent upon the parents to not confuse the two.

SMS, you were and still are way off. I got your meaning the first time. And that the teacher was NOT remiss for not teaching the kids that democracy and civility means people can vote for whoever they want -- this is a matter of voting with the (bare) majority of the country, for pete's sake, NOT voting for Osama bin Laden or David Duke. You think that's wimpy, and therefore think that the Oxnard gay (transgender?) kid who was killed deserved it, and the fat kid who recently killed himself deserved his bullying, because his parents/ guardians should have told him to expect it "if he was going to be unpopular," and further, the heavy kid's parents are to blame for "martyring him." Their teachers and school administrators have no responsibility for teaching/ disciplining the bullies.

Luckily, the vast majority of decent people see where the problem and responsibility lie. There will always be those like you and that's why the rest of us must stay vigilant.